Bent County register., 1887-08-06

morning. He is enthusiastic about
Lamar.-"Kinsley Kansas Mercury"
They are getting buggy in Texas
| The Flatoone argus" says:
"rhe chinch bug eats the farmers grain.
The bec-moth spoiis bis honey,
The bedbug Ellis him full Of pain,
The hnmbug scoops his money
From the Chicago oTribune".
lion. \. NJ. Jones, better known rs
'Iong Jones'" chairman of the Hi
nois Republican State Committee, is
against the denomination of Blaine.
There are men who would suit tue
republican party just gs well as Mr..
Blaine.
Fort Morgan farmers report three
tons and over of alfalfa to the acre
ut one cutting.
The corn crop of Larlmer county
is better this year than i; has been
for years.-"Denver Journal Of Com
merce,"
Hard rains have fallen every night
this week. New settlers do not hes
itate in saying that more rain has
fallen in this country this year than
in central Kansas, and claiu-holders
are more than pleased with the pros
poets for making fine crops. This
season but few efforts have been
made toward farming here, owing to
the lateness OF the farmers arrival,
but considerable fall blowing is be
ing done and the ground prepared
tor the coming season.-"Cheyenne
Wells Gazette"
For fifteen years a considerable ag-
riculture has lourished along the
mountain sides and among the foot
| hills without Irrigation. The pro-
verbally large potato crops are the
best ILLUSTRATION of this rich product
of the rainfall of the county. The
largest crops grown run about four
hundred bushels per acre, The aver
age one year with another for fifteen
years past is thought by competent
Judges to be one hundred bushels
per acre.
The acreage may be safely ostim-i
ted at fully 1000 acres. This acre
age may be increased indefinitely.
New Mcxico Las afforded a fine mar
ket taking many car loads each year.
The only obstacle to unlimited devel-
opment Of This line of agriculture is
that railway stations are not yet near
enough to these prolific potato fields
TO afford convenient transportation.
Barley is another fine product of
our mountain and foot hill agricul-
ture. The yield of this cereal is
forty-five to fifty bushels per acre.
Not enough has ever been grown to
supply the demand for feeding and
of the breweries in Trinidad. Agri-
culture both with and without irri-
cation though registering large re
turns, has scarcely yet commenced to
deyelop.-"Trinidad Ci.izeh,"
T. n. King, of Sedan, Kansas,
wants the address of as many mem
bers of.the End Kentucky cavalry as
possible. The brigade of cavalry to
to which the End kentucky belonged
has organized a society and will hold
q reunion at Columbus, Ohio, on the
l7th of August. The society in
cludes the survivors OF the LIST, 3rd
and 4th Ohio cayalla the cad Ken
tucky cavalry, and the Chicago board
of trade battery. All members of
these organizations are cordially IN
vited to attend the reunion if posi-
Bile. If they cannot attend they are
earnestly solicited to send in their
names and present address to T. n.
King, Sedan, Kansas.
In the early days only few schol-
ars and priests knew how to write
1t was then customary to sign doc
gment by smearing the hand with
ink and impressing it upon the paper,
at the same time saying, "Witness
my nand and seal was introduced as
a substitute for the hand, and was
often placed beside the hand mark,
1.-THE tyo forming the signature. This